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TWO Christmas Stories and Perhaps a Worshipping Camel
Sometimes during this jolly festive season of rabid commerce, angry streets and of dying and resurrecting gargantuan blow-up yard...
charltonlanetaylor
Dec 21, 20217 min read
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I Won't Be Good (A Poem of Sorts)
I won't be good. Indeed, I can't be. Some have assured me I'm not. But kindness has texture. You can hold it. Feel it. Cuddle it....
charltonlanetaylor
Nov 18, 20211 min read
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The Crucified Buddha (Part II. The Need for Secular "Pastors")
[Read Part I :"My VooDoo Magic"] EPISODE 1 : THE VISITATION Your room disguises itself as one belonging to a hospital ward with a touch...
charltonlanetaylor
Jun 29, 20215 min read
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My VooDoo Magic (Part I: The Need For Secular "Pastors")
No one in my circle called me a Witch Doctor because I practiced an accepted form of wizardry. I was a novice Christian Pastor in a...
charltonlanetaylor
May 21, 20215 min read
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This Is Why You Don’t Have Time to Read This (Or Maybe My Writing Sucks)
Once an intermit feeling, now the default human setting - a self-induced side-effect of our glorious progress - Hurry steals the present...
charltonlanetaylor
Apr 22, 20212 min read
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A Secret in My Pocket
We stood soiled toe to rubber sole. He, no taller than a verge of puberty schoolboy, exaggerated my average American build. I saw him, a...
charltonlanetaylor
Mar 24, 20211 min read
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Poking Musk And Celebrating the Elk Hunt!
While currency, our human-crafted God, consumes our souls and reigns as the ultimate sovereign over our species - I’ve come to believe...
charltonlanetaylor
Sep 29, 20204 min read
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When Jesus Whispered In My Ear: Dissolving Metaphors in the Mire of Failure
Forty years I swam in the deep waters of the Christian faith, so deep in fact, I became a professional for twenty of those years...a...
charltonlanetaylor
Sep 9, 20203 min read
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The Time the Internet Discovered My Coffee Tweet, Dammit!
Okay...I’m about to share a tweet from my past, but I feel some context is important. Listen! I’m not proud of the 140 characters (yes,...
charltonlanetaylor
Aug 28, 20203 min read
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The Sacred Space of Flaky Jumbo
Recently, I hung a 24x36 poster in my boys' room: a 1988 Fleetwood RV - an icon of sorts, worthy of diluted veneration. When you can no...
charltonlanetaylor
Aug 22, 20202 min read
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Why Not Mattering Matters: Why I'm Voting After a 20-Year Hiatus
I last cast my presidential ballet 20 years ago! American Beauty won best picture, People Magazine named Brad Pitt "Sexiest Man Alive!",...
charltonlanetaylor
Aug 14, 20202 min read
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The Tangible Power of the Invisible God
Nothing Taking much. Coconut cream pie at Mom's table Joy outside in the running car Grateful you're alive Never celebrating your life...
charltonlanetaylor
Jul 18, 20201 min read
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A Likely Unpopular Apology I Didn't Know I Needed To Make
I have a long list of apologies I need to make...I think of them often but will likely never apologize. They can only be taken as...
charltonlanetaylor
Jan 7, 20202 min read
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Prodeitivity: 9 to 5 to 7 to Answering Emails While Taking a Poo.
I rolled into work at 7:30 AM, not because the early bird gets the worm (sometimes the bigger, stronger, more aggressive bird just rips...
charltonlanetaylor
Nov 19, 20193 min read
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Hidden Humans: Steaks and Bedpans
Three years ago I stood on a stage, my feet resting just above the crowd. Lights...colored lights, a set, mega screens and one thousand...
charltonlanetaylor
Nov 6, 20193 min read
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Pretending to be Honest, Honestly.
I pretend because it's easier and more effective than honesty. Humans are social creatures. We need a pack and pretending lubricates the...
charltonlanetaylor
Oct 27, 20193 min read
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18 Things
Live as independently of money as you possibly can. Your greatest resource is time. Don’t waste it. Think of life and people as both/and...
charltonlanetaylor
Oct 20, 20191 min read
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That Time God Told Me To Go to Hell: An Event that Never Really Happened But Did.
I met God in a forest. "Oh shit! It's you!! I didn't think you were real." "I know. That's why you're bound for Hell." "So that's a real...
charltonlanetaylor
Oct 13, 20193 min read
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Touch
The thing about a Leper Colony is no one pretends they are well anymore. When you're first diagnosed, you hide it: a long sleeve shirt,...
charltonlanetaylor
Oct 6, 20192 min read
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Sticky Notes and Prickly Cactus
Some days I step away from my desk... ...from florescent light bulbs, layers of screens, the nagging sound of empty IV's, the drone of...
charltonlanetaylor
Sep 29, 20191 min read
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